#contrarians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #contrarians, aggregated by home.social.
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New York Times: The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley. This link goes to a gift article. “Paulina Borsook’s ‘Cyberselfish,’ which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/30/new-york-times-the-writer-who-dared-criticize-silicon-valley/
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Reuters: ‘Big Short’ investor Burry targets AI boom with new blog after hedge fund closure. “‘The Big Short’ investor Michael Burry, a vocal skeptic of the current AI boom, took aim at Nvidia as he launched a paid Substack newsletter focused on financial markets, days after shutting down his hedge fund.”
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Ars Technica: Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.. “During the times my connection cooperated, Zitron and I covered OpenAI’s financial issues, lofty infrastructure promises, and why the AI hype machine keeps rolling despite some arguably shaky economics underneath. Lee’s probing questions about per-user costs revealed a potential flaw in AI subscription […]
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Ars Technica: Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.. “As generative AI has taken off since ChatGPT’s debut, inspiring hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and infrastructure developments, the top question on many people’s minds has been: Is generative AI a bubble, and if so, when will it pop? To help us potentially answer that question, I’ll be hosting a […]
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Someone tell all the #contrarians smugly gloating about #TikTok being #banned that they're already on the #fediverse and they're not going to be getting extra good-boy points.
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#ServusTV wusste also davor ganz genau was da kommt. Aber ja, das Ziel von Servus ist es ja nicht nach bestem Wissen & Gewissen zu informieren ... sondern alle Seiten – egal wie abwegig – zu Wort kommen zu lassen. #FalseBalance #Contrarians
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Good episode on Decoding the Gurus on #covid #contrarians.
A very good reading on the contrarian scene; how much are they making money in the process of ranting on ”big pharma”?
Turns out a lot of them made thenselves millionaires. In fact Joe Rogan made hundreds of millions by selling the supplement company #onnit to guess who? Big Pharma.
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It’s so cathartic to simply BLOCK static. Some people like to argue, because it gives them something to do. It doesn’t occur to them that I don’t give a damn about their approval. Best of all, I needn’t devote any time to explaining that. Immediate quiet, calm, and convenience.
#BLOCK #mute #contrarians #trolls #argument -
Does anybody know any #outlets or #editors interested in how merchants of #doubt sow derail public conversation on #scientific topics?
Talking more broadly about communication tactics from #antivaxxers to 9/11 #truthers, from #climate #contrarians to AIDS #deniers, every parallel universe comes with its little niche #rituals, #idiosyncratic #fallacies, and historical #trajectory. What they share is their #sabotage of public scientific #discourse.
Feel free to suggest somebody or DM me 😅
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Recursive fury: Resigning from Frontiers
Last month, I was alerted to an outrageous act of a scientific journal caving in to pressure from delusionals demanding the science about their publicly displayed delusions be hidden from the world: the NPG-owned publisher Frontiers retracted a scientific article, with which they could not find anything wrong: The article attracted a number of complaints which were investigated by the publisher. This investigation did not identify any issues with the academic and ethical aspects of the […]